Following its installation over the Summer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Of the Oak by Marshmallow Laser Feast for which I wrote the score and composed the spatial sound design is being installed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where it will be open to the public from December 2025 until March 2026.
Read MoreLiving Symphonies in 'Lost for Words' at Sheffield Doc Fest
'New Beginning' review at the Grand Theatre, Luxembourg
“Entering the Grand Théâtre Studio these past few days was like taking a break, opening a parenthesis in space and time. It was responding to an invitation to participate in a return to the most distant sources of our universe, to take the time to relive what emerged and developed from nothing. An invitation to understand that this has always been our story. And to spark an awareness that can only change our view of our threatened, already compromised world, perhaps leading us to finally react and act.”
Stéphane Gilbart, Luxemburger Wort
23 May 2025
https://www.wort.lu/kultur/les-jeunes-nous-racontent-comment-repenser-notre-lien-a-l-univers/68246560.html
“The result is a strong and intense theatre - conceived and designed by David Shearing - with essential images that question our place and the meaning of our lives. The music and the soundtrack (by James Bulley) contribute to this in large measure, skillfully combining recorded texts and musical vibrations. […]
Culture opens the debate, highlights the important subjects for today's society and tomorrow's... Nothing is more jubilant than an artistically accomplished show that knows how to denounce and raise awareness, while involving the younger generations to the highest degree.
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All dressed in black, as if in mourning, very dignified and grave, these young people are our whistleblowers. Their conscience awakens ours. It's up to us to act. The message is received 10 out of 10.”
Alexandre Pham, Classique News
19 May 2025
https://www.classiquenews.com/critique-spectacle-musical-luxembourg-grand-theatre-le-17-mai-2025-new-beginning-variable-matter-creation/
More information about Variable Matter’s New Beginning can be found here.
'Breathing with the Forest' at Compton Verney
‘Breathing with the Forest’ at Oxo Exhibition, 2024 (Image courtesy: Marshmallow Laser Feast)
Sound system update at Longplayer's London listening post
For the past twenty five years, Longplayer has been heard resonating in the Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse in East London. To celebrate reaching this milestone, at the end of 2024 we updated the entire sound system for an optimal acoustic experience. You can now hear Longplayer immediately upon entering the 19th century lighthouse, resonating in the centre of the Longplayer Live bowl installation, and in the circular lantern room at the very top of this historical building, with views across the Thames.
The updates were generously sponsored by EM Acoustics, who donated the speakers, and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust who enabled the purchase of a DSP and control by Yamaha and amplification by Power Soft audio. The new six channel speaker implementation was developed by Daniel Jones, and the system and sound designed by Simon Hendry, supported by James Bulley, a Longplayer Trustee. Installation support was provided by Richard Hards, Jake Tyler, and Dickie Cripps, with production support from Imogen Free.
If you haven’t visited our London listening post yet this year, come down and have a listen!
Tex: https://longplayer.org/news/2025/01/17/sound-system-update-at-longplayers-london-listening-post/
'City of Trees' opening
City of Trees by Matthew Rosier for which I have composed the soundscores alongside NYX and Laura Misch, is now open, and runs from 5–11pm November 4–10 2021 outside St Mary Aldermary Church in the City of London, England.
Read More'Living Symphonies' in the Guardian
Read More“The unique sound installation that will play out between the trees of Bedgebury until 31 August is the work of artist duo James Bulley and Daniel Jones. The piece, Living Symphonies, is a composition that reflects and responds to the very ecosystem of the wood where it is played, from the photosynthesis of the trees, to a spider weaving its web and the flitting of a butterfly.
Through 24 speakers installed in different levels among the roots and canopy of the trees, ramblers stumbling upon this small patch of wood will encounter a haunting cacophony of musical sounds dictated by the interactions and movements of the ecosystem they stand in.”